I sent Gin warm loving thoughts when I focused on her, so that she would sleep peacefully. Donna was at the library at school, and Nikki was in a lect...re hall.Wanda came in and sat with me. She didn’t have stacks of files, only a couple of sheets of printed paper. She gave me one. “There are several items that should be taken care of. You need to go to the Atlanta office for a station review so that you can give the station’s Chief Deputy a raise. He hasn’t had a review for a few years because. " She stopped, searching his eyes."I miss you too, baby." No, it's not just that."Mike looked confused, "What is it?" Well, you know how much I need your spankings. When you're not here, my mind just runs away from me. I've tried everything. I've even tried spanking myself, but I can't do it right. I think maybe I need to see a shrink or something."Neither of them moved for the longest time. Finally, Mike said, "Spankings are that important to you?" Louise just nodded.Mike said, "Well, maybe. With a violet-blue flash my vision snapped out as I became insensible on my pallet.Miles away, the cirlce of seers had been thrown against the walls of their chamber. Only their slow breaths and the steady beating of their hearts showed them to be alive. The irreplacable scrying stone was fractured into several blackened fragments. The stench of ozone rode heavily on the air. One of them slowly stirred and blinked his eyes. “What in Zandru’s name was THAT?”I slowly woke the next morning, aching. That Saturday evening when I came home I found Fay crying her eyes out. When she quit hugging and kissing me I asked her what she was crying about. She said she had been so lonesome and missed me so much she had just cried.I made an effort to spend as much time with her as I could. I began to take her out to dinner often. I would kiss her a lot. I told her how good she looked to me several times every day.I knew that a woman often was very emotional during pregnancy.Fay's mother stayed away.